YOSHINO SENSEI'S CASE

My, you again? I wasn't expecting you to come back so soon! Anyway… What? Stop talking all at once, I can't understand anything you say! You, there, explain this! Mh. Mmmh. Ooooohh, so that's the matter! You just met the Chemistry professor! I understand why you're here now… Take a seat, poor things, and let me explain...

Yoshino Chiaki, said « Candide »

Age: Look, I know you're going to start to believe I exaggerate by dint of repeating the same thing about each teacher, but Yoshino-sensei doesn't look his age either. He's THIRTY-TWO. No, no I'm not joking, this man is really in his thirties! His body, at the very least. However, regarding what happens in his head...

Family Status: No rich family or prestigious pedigree this time: Yoshino-sensei has had a standard childhood in a normal family, with normal parents and a normal sister. Which is why anyone could legitimately wonder how a child who was pretty much like any other had grown up to become the most senseless and lacking of basic survival instinct person on the planet. Don't worry, you'll soon understand...

Position: With a total absence of capacity to evaluate any risk or danger, it was therefore obvious for Yoshino-sensei to become a Chemistry teacher. Despite his apparent childishness, Yoshino-sensei is a true ace in his field! In fact, he's known all over the world for several revolutionary inventions, mostly artistic tools being an artist himself in his spare time (artan ist who uses a pseudonym so no need to jump on your phones!). This wouldn't be a problem if this mad scientist didn't test his mixtures during class, in front of and ON the students which, you'll have the opportunity to notice yourself, has a tendency to end up with the evacuation of the whole building. Fortunately for all of us, the Physics teacher, whose class is adjacent to Yoshino-sensei's, is always ready to come and save the day (and to loudly and profusely scold a crestfallen chimiste who'll keep repeating to whoever's willing to hear it that he doesn't understand what went wrong.) If you're lucky, however, you might have class with him right after lunch which means you'll be safe: he'll fall asleep while calling the roll and won't show any sign of consciousness for the next two hours. Of course, your grade will suffer from it, but at least you'll still be alive to fail the exams!

Other activities: He doesn't have his own club (may Hatori-sensei be thanked for that) but he does participate in the activities of the art club and the cooking club (one of them is an order from the Physics teacher, I let you guess which one…) and if he excels in the first one to the point of rivalizing with the Art teacher, each and every attempt to use kitchen utensils resulted in the use of a fire extinguisher. Mh? No, no, I'm absolutely not kidding, Yoshino-sensei really started a fire every time he tried to cook something to the point that the Cooking teacher, though known for his endless patience, had forbidden him access to the kitchen. He still helps making cakes from time to time but only for the modeling and the frosting and he has to do it at a table in the corridor. I highly recommend to refrain from laughing at him though: it is common knowledge here that Yoshino-sensei has a guardian angel in the school, a pretty cruel protector who'll make you pay for the slightest mockery thrown at the naive scientific to the point where you may be tempted to volunteer for the latter's experiences. Obviously, the existence of this guardian angel is denied by all the members of the faculty, but technically so was the janitor's stock of 'medicinal herbs', so watch out!

Appearance:

-One of Yoshino-sensei's main physical traits is his very childish appearance despite being in his thirties. It's not that he strictly looks like a child, not at all, but his round face, his big blue eyes, ever messy hair and juvenile behaviour will have the inexplicable effect to make you see this teacher like a lost child who must be protected at all cost, and that's how you'll inevitably end up carrying water and biscuits with you all the time like a worried mother, just in case.

-Yoshino-sensei might be very cute indeed, but I strongly advise against trying to choke him with a love-filled hug like a puppy you'd found on the side of the road. Yoshino-sensei is not a puppy, he's a capybara which means everybody loves him, thus you obviously but also all of his colleagues who, just like you, feel the intense need to protect from, well, YOU. So, even though everything in this teacher screams 'come and hold me', keep your distance: it's a pretty flower surrounded by carnivorous plants.

-As a Chem professor, Yoshino-sensei necessarily wears the classic white lab coat wherever he goes which, as you'll notice, tends to become magically too big from times to times, but since you really want to graduate at the end of the year you won't ask any question about it, of course. Under this coat are usually wildly original outfits (a shirt and a pair of denim) which will be systematically embellished by socks as colored as mismatched, something that he argues to not be voluntary.

Character:

-Yoshino-sensei is one of these 'truly nice' kind of guys. To be clear, notions like pettiness and cruelty go completely over his head, as well as sarcasm. I must advise once more against trying to stain this pure white innocence through the explanation, or worse, the demonstration of those principles: you don't want your notes to be mysteriously erased from your computer one week before the exams, believe me.

-With Yoshino-sensei's kindness comes a great naivety. In fact, if he would never even think of being mean towards anybody on purpose, the opposite is just as true. In his head, it's the Care Bears' world: everyone is nice, birds are chirping, there are butterflies and rainbows everywhere and Santa Claus is getting ready for Christmas. Hey! Don't laugh! You're giggling now but wait 'til you got some classes with him and I guarantee that in a couple of weeks you'll be fighting over which of you will have the honor to put his gifts under the faculty lounge's christmas tree!

-He's dumb. Well, yes, he IS a scientific genius with a doctorate in molecular chemistry and whose inventions are used all over the world, so he's smart, but apart from that, he's dumb. My words hold all the love they can I swear, but you won't make me believe that someone who put an egg in the microwave to hatch it faster doesn't have some defective neurons up there! Some will argue that he's a misunderstood genius way too high above us, miserable mortals, for us to understand just how much of one he is… But I remain convinced that Yoshino-sensei is a dumb-dumb.

Marital Status :

-His two childhood friends and himself form a happy romantic threesome.

BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH! YOU SHOULD SEE YOUR FACES RIGHT NOW! You're all red! (I'm begging you, please, don't tell anyone I made this joke, I need to complete this year.) Come on, let's be serious now, he's really dating one of his best friends -who happens to be the Physic teacher- and from some information we got through the endless monologues that the chemist loves to lose himself in every time a problem occur in his life (so every 23 minutes), it seems that the two live together, which is not really surprising when you know of this professor's abilities for any sort of household core. At this point, Hatori-sensei should get paid as a maid.

Relationships:

-I don't know if it can be called a 'relationship' but Yoshino-sensei is a fan of famous scientific Ijuuin Kyo's work (I assume I don't need to present him, with his late creation's massive success I'm pretty sure you all know him. Mh? Vantablack? Anish Kapoor? What the hell are you talking about?!), a passion he shares with the Cooking teacher, much to the displeasure of the one of Modern Writing.

-As I mentioned before, Yoshino-sensei has two childhood friends who happen to be Hatori-sensei and Yanase-san and with who he's very close and who, of freaking course, made sure to be working as close to our dear teacher as possible, the only fly in this beautiful friendship ointment being that the two men hate each other with all their might without bothering to hide it anymore, whether it's from their mutual friend or the poor insects you are. However, the situation doesn't seem to affect Yoshino-sensei that much and he usually settles for clearing the room as soon as an argument breaks out (including when it breaks out inside his own classroom) but after so many years even he might have given up any hope of reconciliation between these two.

-In addition to his two BFFs, Yoshino-sensei and his colleagues of English and Biology get along pretty well too. From what I've heard, they have a habit to get together once a week to watch a movie in the projection room of the library, which ended up with a strict no-horror-movie policy after an incident involving the 3D version of The Ring.

Conclusion: A teacher that doesn't seem to be aware he's one and who will make you refill your stock of candies (and antidepressants) regularly if you want to pass the exams!